TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: Why 'literature and feminism'?. Part I: Literature?. 1. Re-vision: Reading as a Woman. 2. Challenging the Canon and the Literary Establishment. 3. Writing by Women. Part II:. 4. The Construction of Gender: Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. 5. Writing as a Woman: Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Ecriture Feminine.…